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complete horse-doctor; or, farriery made plain and easy
Explaining the best methods of curing the several diseases to which horses are subject: together with a succinct account of all the various symptoms of their approaching disorders also the best manner of taking proper care of them, during the time of their illness. The whole laid down in the most plain and intelligible manner, that all those who have horses may manage their own, and cure the distempers to which they are subject, without the assistance of a farrier. With an introduction: containing the most certain methods of chusing horses of all kinds. Also easy directions for riding, whereby a person, from small experience, may become not only a complete horseman but also a complete farrier. Likewise the most proper manner of managing a horse on a journey. The whole being the result of 37 years practice and experience
vi, 120 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates ; 16 cm
Niall Kenny description: Very scarce; not in Dingley. Date of book uncertain but ESTC put at 1762. Dublin edition of 1763. The title page of the RVC copy has been reset, with a slightly different imprint and another 24 pp of publisher's adverts at the end (as does the Manchester copy). These have a separate gathering of A12. Reprinted in America in 1793 (by J. Thomson; sic.) and 1807; copy sold by Maggs (08/2006) had a slightly different setting of the title page so clearly variant issues exist; Manchester copy also a different setting from this copy.
By J. Thompson, of Clifton, in Yorkshire.
Dated from booksellers' catalogue bound at end. (ESTC T141332).
"The name and situation of the external parts of a horse" -- frontispiece title.
ESTC note: In this edition the 13th line of the title ends "intelligible", in another undated edition (ESTC T162321) it ends "intelli-". In this edition the "B" of signature B2 is under the "old" of "cold;" in the other editon it is under the "n" of "distend.".